Memory Configuration of Toshiba Tecra 8000

Donnie

Win XP with 128 MB on a Pentium 2??

Let's hope you can get Windows 2000 on the thing.

HugoSP

Donnie wrote: »

Win XP with 128 MB on a Pentium 2??

Let's hope you can get Windows 2000 on the thing.

well, my research tells be that XP doesn't need 256mb

http://farookh.spaces.live.com/

commentry about someone converting a tecra 8000 into a digital photo frame

scroll down towards the bottom of the page and you will find the following text:

I connect the power adapter and power it on, expecting either a DOA system or to hear weird beeps and system errors. Instead, I hear the hard disk spin up with a rather loud whine, it POSTs well and starts booting into Win98! Aha! The hard disk wasn't as bad as stated in the listing. Once it boots up, I inspect the LCD and it is in great condition - no scratches, no dead or hot pixels and it has good colors and brightness. I next run scandisk and find only one bad sector - the rest of the disk was fine except for the loud whine (it sounded like a jetliner a hundred yards away). I check sysinfo to find it has a 266MHz CPU (not 233MHz as stated in the listing) and 192MB of RAM (not 128MB as listed). So far it seems like a great piece (much better than I had expected). My first buy off eBay has been a good one and a pleasant experience overall - including PayPal.
After being ready to have a picture frame powered by DOS, now that I had a fully functioning laptop, I couldn't stand running it on 98. So, I connect the CDROM drive and upgrade to XP, plug in an old WiFi
[*] adapter I had lying at home and install the myriad SPs and security patches.

Also, checked the Microsoft pages as well.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865

•Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)•At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)•At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk •CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive•Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device•Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600)or higher resolution •Sound card•Speakers or headphones

I don't know if the sound or vga would be up to it but this guy in the states managed on a similar unit.


As I say, Win2k would be fine anyway.

98SE would get him on broadband - thanks to my learned friends in another post.

Thanks for taking the trouble to answer all my qs Donnie

Donnie

Doesn't the review state 192MB?

I'm sure it will be fine, as long as he doesn't try to multi-task or even have more than one web page open at the same time.

The Microsoft specs for XP:

These are the minimum requirements for basic functionality. Actual requirements vary, depending on the system configuration and the programs and features that you choose to install.

I have Windows ME on an old IBM laptop with 192MB. Runs surprisingly well.

Some people seem to hate Windows ME, but it's given me no problems and has brought new life to an old laptop.
ME has Plug & Play, I don't think Win 2K does.

XP would probably resemble a three legged dog on that machine and spec.

HugoSP

I've just succesfully loaded windows 2000 and it works fine.
Thanks for all your help.